[plt-scheme] Profiling Issues

On 18/07/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Most of this is that the GUI for profiling could use a little more
> work. At the moment, it is tuned to programs that are entirely within
> a single file.
>
> If you want to move beyond that, you might try using the lower-level
> interface (look in the errortrace collection's docs) for now.
>
> As to #3: yes, that's because the functions have no name. Perhaps they
> are lambda expressions not next to binders in your program, or perhaps
> they were inserted by macros.
>
> Sorry I can't be more help.
>

Thank you anyway because even though the UI is not as one would wish
it seems that the errortrace collection helps me in what I want to
achieve, thanks! :-)

Paulo Matos

> Robby
>
> On 7/18/07, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying to profile a program but I'm having some issues:
> > 1 - I can't resize the profile window where the profile table is shown;
> > 2 - Can't print the table in the window which is quite big;
> > 3 - I have a testcase which basically is a macro which expands to
> > several function calls and starts a model checking procedure, when I
> > do the profile I get a few functions on the table but not all
> > functions I defined, and some lines just have <<unknown>>:x.y, can't I
> > have the real function name, or these correspond to anonymous function
> > calls?
> > 4 - The table seems to be organized in lines of two function calls. I
> > mean, it shows up two filled lines, then a blank one, more two filled
> > line, another blank one... why is this?
> > 5 - Some of the functions which take most time are identified as
> > loop13214... this doesn't help much and the files where these
> > functions are located are opened but they don't get coloured. Any idea
> > why? I'm using subversion from July 9th, rev 6874 running on linux.
> >
> > Can someone help with these issues?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
> > http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
> > PhD Student @ ECS
> > University of Southampton, UK
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Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK